Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they sat in their quiet rooms, Dulles and Henderson considered Syria in the context of a body of evidence that Communist diplomacy, for all of Communism's interior weakness, was setting forth upon some showy new adventures. The Communists have proclaimed a test-model 3,500-mile missile, tested nuclear weapons, broken off months-old disarmament talks in London, sent light cruisers into the Mediterranean, shipped obsolete arms into Syria. Loy Henderson's specific point was that the Russians are so persistently brandishing the threat of force before impressionable Arabs that the U.S. has to convince the Arabs...
...plane had landed at McGuire because the Port of New York Authority has banned all jets except the comparatively quiet French Caravelle (not yet in regular use, but cleared for Idlewild) from New York-area airports. The Authority refused to make an exception unless the plane passed a sound test, which the Russians refused to permit...
...pine-hemmed camp site overlooking northern California's Lake Shasta was cool and quiet, and the C. V. Cadwalla-ders, camped out there, had nothing more on their minds than a restful lunch. Then came a rising sound of motor traffic, a cloud of dust, the rasp of gravel on rubber as four automobiles slid to a stop near by. From the lead car bounded a bulky, shirtsleeved figure who plunged through the manzanita bush like a startled bull moose, thrust a hand at Mr. Cadwallader, announced simply: "I'm Senator Knowland." After five minutes of picture taking...
...lies in the country's culture, which creates an introvert type of personality. The Thai religion (Buddhism) forbids aggressiveness, teaches contentment and moderation "to an immoderate degree," thus encouraging lack of initiative and a turning away from reality. This also helps explain why nearly all Thai schizophrenics are quiet and "biddable...
...later in 1909. He took a doctorate in civil law at Louvain University in 1919 and the same year was ordained a priest. Over the next quarter-century, and especially as head of the North Belgian Province (1938-46), Father Janssens developed a kind of subterranean reputation as a quiet, levelheaded administrator. No one was more surprised than the self-effacing Belgian when in 1946 he became the fourth of his countrymen to head the Jesuits...